Organizational Influences and Project Life Cycle

This lecture talks about organizational culture, style and structure. How culture, style and structure get developed in an organization. What are common experiences we can often seen in an organization which are root causes for the culture and style in an organization and how these factors influence Projects and Project Manager's success.

This lecture details out the necessity of an effective organizational communication. Also talks about components and dimensions of an organizational communications. Project Manager's success is wholly depandant on effectivenes of various forms of communications during project life cycle.

This lecture talks about Organizational structure which is an enterprise environmental factor, which can affect the availability of resources and influence how projects are conducted. Organizational structures range from functional to projectized, with a variety of matrix structures in between.

Organization structures are created based on certain set of deciding Project Characteristics.

This is an important topic for an aspiring Project manager and even for a practicing Project manager.

This lecture gives definition of Process assets. Makes you to understood what it contains, what is its use and what are the two broad categories of process assets.

Talks about various Procedures incorporated within each Processes and what it contains in Corporate knowledge base.

We can understand what are enterprise environment factors? What are they and how they impact or influence projects.

This lecture is an important lecture for a practicing as well as aspiring project manager.

This talks about, stakeholders' influence, their identity, their role, their impact on the project. Also discusses about various type of stakeholders in a Project set up and their relationships within Project organization.

The lecture deals with an important topic of Project Governance. The role of project governance is to provide a decision making framework that is logical, robust and repeatable to govern an organization's capital investments. In this way, an organization will have a structured approach to conducting both its business as usual activities and its business change, or project, activities.

Governance has 3 pillers and series of elements within governance framework.

This lecture deals with the factors for the success of the project and how it should be measured in terms of completing the project within the constraints of scope, time, cost, quality, resources, and risk as approved between the project managers and senior management.

Along with this, it talks about six general satisfaction factors which are truly practical in nature are the expectations to call a Project as a complete success.

You will undertstand what is project team? What it includes? Who are this group of individuals in a project team? How is prime structure of a project team?What are all roles does a Project team include? How does composition of a project team vary? What are the circumstances which make project team composition vary?

For a practicing project manager, understanding these facts are very important with respective to his grip on the project and ease with which he can handle throughout the life cycles to take it forward towards a grand success.

This lecture clearly explains what is a phase and makes you to understood what is the difference between phase and project management process groups.

In this lecture, we will see all the characteristics of a Project Life cycle. We will also see how cost and staffing level changes during project life cycle.

We will have understanding on how uncertainty changes as well as cost of any changes to the product produced during the project changes with project life cycle.

This lecture is all about phases which enabls better management, planning and control of the project.

However, deciding on the phase structure is entirely depends on complexity and potential impact of the activity on overall project.

Each phase contains or undergoes all the project management process groups like initiating till closure.

This lecture talks about types of phase-to-phase relationships and how these relationships are chosen.

This lecture details all about predictive lifecycle, its methodology and applications.